tax foods above a certain level of saturated fat content (maybe 20%?), which has been proven to have definitive harms to the health when eaten in large quantities, and then subsidise healthy foods and programs to educate people how to eat healthily. (in a nutshell, tax Maccas so fresh food is cheaper).

Poor people who are increasingly unable to move are becoming addicted to fatty/processed foods. There are three reasons for this:

1. There is a lack of education and understanding on how to eat healthily.

2. Fresh food is more expensive (because processed food lasts longer, among other reasons)

3. This food is particularly addictive

Because of these reasons, people are losing the ability to choose (this is great because it undercuts the Neg argument about choice). This is raising healthcare costs on the public system, and lowering the quality of life of people who eat these foods is great quantities.

Arguments:

1. Examining the problem: there is no real choice, obesity rates are skyrocketing (15% of under 5 year olds are obese). Particularly with regards to children, they don’t have a choice, because their parents feed them. Therefore we MUST guide the choice of parents.

2. Benefits to individuals: it changes the culture centred around food.

3. Society/Role of Government: It is just that people who buy these really fatty foods in large quantities and indirectly cause greater costs to healthcare system because heart disease as a result of fatty food is in developed countries the number one killer (or will be in the next few years).

If you buy these foods occasionally, then the tax won’t affect you, but you still benefit from fresh food being subsidised.

The government tries to shape people’s behaviour through things such as vice taxes (eg acohol/cigarettes), or even through regulations (eg seatbelt laws), as well as subsidies towards schooling (so that people are all able to access education, therefore learning to read/write is seen as normal).

Health care costs are overflowing in many countries in this current day. To surmount this, taxation offers many benefits such as the ability to restrict the purchase of fatty foods which will be a great economic booster.

I mean don't drastically tax them, but I think the tax on unhealthy food should be higher for two reasons:

1. The extra money could go toward the health care that will inevitably be needed to care for the people that choose to buy it.

2. There would be lower prices (relatively) for healthy options like fruits and vegetables. That could lead to people making healthier choices.

As we observe the wobbling gluttons lumbering through our streets we must come to the logical conclusion that the vast majority of people cannot be trusted to exercise self control and to heed the numerous warnings about over eating, especially fat and sugar laden foods. Regulations and taxes are the only ''possible'' answer to the blubber boys of the western world. The food manufacturers and the retail outlets are, respectfully, drug barons and drug pushers. These two profit driven groups of low lives know that human beings become easily addicted to the poison with which they lace our food. This is what I told my children when they were young and it seemed to have made a beneficial impact on their way of eating. Consider sugar and salt as ''white poison''.